I'll be substituting the "Buy" with a "Build" on my entry and I will be
flying a molded model. If you carefully look at the top pilots and WC
in all areas of modelling, I suspect you will find that many build thier
own or are working closely with a mfg to help design and build the
models they fly.
I think they should outlaw laser cut parts and any other power tools
from the woody contests. Nothing more than razor blades and sandpaper
are allowed ;-)
John wrote:
Ray,
"no store bought" Are you kidding? That is heresy!
It's sad but it looks like (from the lack of anyone responding to your post
in the last 24hr) this is going to be the "BBBBB&Y" (Big Boy, Big Bucks, Buy
& Fly) contest. You have to save your support money for the
craftsman/builder events. It looks like no one values, or gives any
consideration, to the people that have the skill and determination to build
what they fly. Not a big enough market I guess.
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Hayes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 4:52 PM
To: John Diniz; mark browning
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [RCSE] LSF US Soaring Masters sponsored by Horizon Hobby and JR
Radio
John and LSF,
You guys should be Knighted. Get it on big time TV and include some
aerobatics footage to spark it up. I truly hope this is a winner.
I will be delighted to donate a $100.00, $75.00 and $50.00 for Cash awards
to first thru third place in a woody class. Like the Southwest Classic
does it with 2m, RES and Grey Cup, not separate flight groups, just separate
class scoring.
Providing the woody qualification rules are:
Built up wood flying surfaces, with or without a glass fuse, no restrictions
on spar construction, no molded d-tube, no foam, no store bought, AMA
unlimited class.
Ray Hayes
http://www.skybench.com
Home of Wood Crafters
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Diniz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "mark browning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 4:19 PM
Subject: RE: [RCSE] LSF US Soaring Masters sponsored by Horizon Hobby and JR
Radio
Just need to be an LSF member. Check out http://www.silentflight.org/ on how
to do that. We're capping it to the 1st 150 entrants for the 1st year. No
firm date on when registration will open, but it should be this spring
sometime. Once we get the website up there will be tons more info there.
JD
-----Original Message-----
From: mark browning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 2:14 PM
To: John Diniz
Subject: RE: [RCSE] LSF US Soaring Masters sponsored by Horizon Hobby
and JR Radio
Holt shi!!!!!
how you Qualify???
see you in AZ????
MB
From: "John Diniz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [RCSE] LSF US Soaring Masters sponsored by Horizon Hobby and JR
Radio
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:00:59 -0600
Well folks, time to block out your vacation days for Sept 21-24, 2006. I'm
pleased to announce the 1st annual LSF Soaring Masters to be held at the
AMA site in Muncie, In. Please see the press release below. There will be a
website up in the coming weeks that will have more info on registration and
sponsorship opportunities. Cash payouts for the top five finishers and
trophies through tenth as well as many product give-away opportunities for
the rest of the field.
Stay tuned to RCSE for more updates!!!!
Thanks,
John
Press Release
US Soaring Masters.
The goal for this event is to help stimulate the competition soaring
segment into higher levels of awareness within the modeling community.
Soaring has endured many years with no real push to grow the segment. With
a prestigious international event, that will draw out the best pilots from
not only the US but the world, could only help grow the great sport of
competition soaring. IMAC has seen much growth, which is no doubt partly
due to prestigious events like TOC, and the Don Lowe Masters. Scale has
also seen great growth with events like Top Gun and the US Scale masters.
The Electric segment has seen growth with events like Neat and SEFF. Giant
scale has seen growth with events like Joe Nall, Dogs and the IMAA rally's.
Soaring needs it's own high profile event. An event that will be the one to
win, an event that brings the soaring segment in front of the average
modeler, an event that gets people excited about soaring. This event is not
a fly in, it is a pure competition, with rules designed to choose the best
thermal pilot in the world. This event will aspire many to get involved in
soaring and aspire them to higher levels of soaring skills.
Dates:
September 21 - 24 2006. The competition days are Friday, Saturday and
Sunday 8 - 5. Thursday is setup day.
Location:
AMA Headquarters, Muncie IN. This site will be ideal due to the ability for
360deg winch setup.
LSF Involvement
LSF has agreed to support this event is in the form of manpower and
equipment. The LSF has agreed to run this event through utilization of
their staff and equipment. Additional Horizon staff will also be available
to help.
Entries:
All attending pilots must be a registered member of the LSF.
Entries will be capped to 150 due to available manpower and long duration
flight times.
10 Additional non-LSF positions will be held and recommended for entry by
the event organization staff. Entry Fees will be $75.
Competition rules:
1. Normalized Man on Man event. Each round will be normalized to 1000
pts. This normalization also includes landing points (ala FAI events). A
perfect score will be a 12-minute flight, and a 100-point landing.
2. Any model can be flown, provided it is a sailplane and meets the AMA
weight limit and total surface area restrictions.
3. 2 models per pilot will be allowed and can be alternated at any time
throughout the event. If a 3rd model is required, that can be registered on
a as needed basis.
4. No skegs or landing devices will be permitted.
5. Every round flown will be a 12 minute duration.
6. Each pilot will be allowed 2 line breaks for the entire event. No line
break re-flights will be allowed after the pilot has used up his 2
launches.
7. Flight time starts when the model is released from the winch line.
8. No model can be launched until the start of working time. (Zero flight
score will result).
9. If model lands outside the designated landing zone, no flight score
will result.
10. Landing tapes will be standard FAI tapes. The last 2 meters will be
divided into 10cm spacing with additional 1-point increments up to the
maximum landing score of 100.
11. All winches will be supplied by the LSF and will be of equal
performance.
12. Ten to twelve (10 - 12, weather permitting) qualifying rounds will be
flown, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The top ten from qualifying rounds will
advance to the final Fly-off rounds.
13. Each finalist will carry his total score over to the finals as a
normalization of the qualifying rounds. If a pilot has the leading amount
of points after flying the qualifying rounds, he will carry a score of
1000pts place going to the finals. Each pilot in the top 10 will then be
normalized based on the winning total score from the qualifying rounds. 3
additional finals rounds will be flown and the accumulation of the
normalized qualifying score along with the additional finals scores will be
added up to determine the winner.
14. 1st through to 5th place will receive cash prizes, and trophies will
be awarded to the top 10 finalists.
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